high school classroom tank

[gsar]

yea, 4ft reef would do. Maybe a 55. Can't imagine much more room in classroom.

Get a bunch easy corals and damsels just in case one of the students drops a hit of ecstasy in there Smaller financial hit.

I think that's big enough to add some interesting creatures. You wouldn't have to go too crazy with cost.

just be careful of the janitors when they clean the glass. They have spray bottles that might get cleaner in there.

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by ponokareefer

I hate to say it, but I would think a classroom tank would be a major distraction for the students. I know I wouldn't be paying a whole lot of attention in class if there was a fish tank in the room, fresh or salt water.

There was a coldwater tank in the back of my grade 10 bio class and I was always looking into it so yes def a distraction. Far as I could tell (at the time) there wasn't even anything living in it but I was curious!

[dunl]

Of course it will be a distraction of some kind. There's always distractions.

But it's the interest and student engagement that these things bring that outweighs the distraction.

[lastlight]

Oh I love distractions. I didn't mean for my post to make the whole idea sound bad. Imagine how cool a tank with LIFE in it would be?

[Aquaria]

Originally Posted by ponokareefer

I hate to say it, but I would think a classroom tank would be a major distraction for the students. I know I wouldn't be paying a whole lot of attention in class if there was a fish tank in the room, fresh or salt water.

+1 think of the ADD students..... they got it hard enough as it is let alone with a distraction like that. if you do it, put it behind the students to help divert their gaze when it should be to the front of the class
fyi im an ADD student or was anyway now im just ADD....what was i talking about?